{"id":3674,"date":"2023-12-14T21:04:09","date_gmt":"2023-12-14T21:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.watanserb.com\/en\/?p=3674"},"modified":"2023-12-14T21:05:43","modified_gmt":"2023-12-14T21:05:43","slug":"unprecedented-shifts-israels-impact-on-sunni-shiite-unity-and-regional-dynamics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.watanserb.com\/en\/2023\/12\/14\/unprecedented-shifts-israels-impact-on-sunni-shiite-unity-and-regional-dynamics\/","title":{"rendered":"Unprecedented Shifts: Israel&#8217;s Impact on Sunni-Shiite Unity and Regional Dynamics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Watan-In statements that sparked widespread reactions, a former advisor to the Pentagon said that Israel is doing something unprecedented, causing the unification of Sunnis and Shiites against it. Colonel Douglas Macgregor noted that as Americans witness more destruction and see more footage and images coming from Gaza, depicting children, women, and elderly men dying and being killed, the support for Israel will erode. He predicted that anger and hatred toward Israel will reach exceptional levels within the region.<\/p>\n<p>Macgregor concluded that Israel is doing something unprecedented: &#8220;Not in my lifetime, at least, which is unifying Sunnis and Shiites against it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Douglas Macgregor is a retired U.S. Army Colonel with a Ph.D., a former senior advisor to the Secretary of Defense, a lecturer in foreign policy and defense, and the author of five books along with numerous articles.<\/p>\n<h3>Cooperation Despite Differences in Religious Ideology<\/h3>\n<p>The American newspaper &#8220;NPR&#8221; dedicated a portion of its reports to observing the unity that exists in the Middle East region among quasi-military groups of both Sunnis and Shiites, despite their ideological and religious differences.<\/p>\n<p>According to the newspaper&#8217;s report, the war in Gaza has driven powerful Shiite quasi-military groups supported by Iran and armed Sunni factions to form a stronger cooperation, even though they differ in religious ideology.<\/p>\n<p>Their unity is manifested in opposition to Israel and the United States. In this context, Hamas, which carried out the Al-Aqsa Tempest operation, is primarily a Sunni Muslim Palestinian movement. Nevertheless, the group, whose name is an Arabic acronym for the Islamic Resistance Movement, collaborates seamlessly with Shiite groups and enjoys unprecedented support from them, according to the report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watan-In statements that sparked widespread reactions, a former advisor to the Pentagon said that Israel is doing something unprecedented, causing the unification of Sunnis and Shiites against it. 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